BetterRide and Gene Hamilton are offering their signature a three day downhill mountain bike camp at Keystone Resort in Summit County, Colorado. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from one of the most experienced coaches in the sport and really up your riding. Sign up soon as this camp limited to 14 riders to ensure the optimal athlete coach ratio and the last BetterRide Camp at Northstar sold out in 10 days!

It will be the best investment you have ever made in your mountain biking (according to our students). Here is what 2009 Pro 4x and Jr. Cat 1 Downhill US National Champion Mitch Ropelato said in a interview in the Oct. 2009 issue of DIRT Magazine:

Dirt Mag: “You seem to be able to turn amazingly, what do you put that down to? Got any special tires on there?
Mitch Ropelato: ” Ya, Gene Hamilton is to thank for that, I took is clinic last December in Bootleg Canyon and he was able to show me the correct technique I needed to pull them off.”

When: July 15-17, 2001
Where: Keystone Resort
Who: 14 lucky downhill riders and racers
Cost: $699.00 (the best investment you will ever make in your riding/racing), $610 for Keysone season pass holders.

About BetterRide: Gene Hamilton founded BetterRide in 1998 to provide structured, professional mtb skills coaching to racers of all ages. Gene is a licensed USA Cycling Expert Coach and has over 20 years of coaching experience including 13 years coaching mountain biking. His coaching highlights include coaching many top pro racers (Chris Van Dine, Eli Krahenbuhl, Mitch Ropelato, Joey Schusler, Graeme Pitts,…) top junior experts (4 of the 6 racers on the US Worlds Team in 2008, 2 in 2009…). Gene is a pretty good racer too, in 15 seasons as a pro downhill racer he has won a Silver (2002) and two Bronze Medals (2006, 1999) at the UCI World Masters Championships.

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